Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041176237
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English 667
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Short description:
In this book scholars in media, visual culture and the arts propose studies of bodies of stone.
MoreLong description:
If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the ‘face of things’, the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation. Within a contemporary imaginary pervaded by new forms of animism, the paradigm of death looms large in many areas of artistic experimentation, pushing the modern body towards mineral modes of being which revive ancient myths of flesh-made-stone and the issue of the monument. Scholars in media, visual culture and the arts propose studies of bodies of stone, from actors simulating statues to the transmutation of the filmic body into a fossil; from the real treatment of the cadaver as a mineral living object to the rediscovery of materials such as wax; from the quest for a ‘thermal’ equivalence between stone and flesh to the transformation of the biomedical body into a living monument.
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INTRODUCTION, I. STATUE: THE IMAGINARY OF UNCERTAIN PETRIFICATION, II. MATTER: SIZE, HARDNESS, DURATION, III. CORPSE: FOSSILS, AUTOICONS, REVENANTS, IV. MONUMENT: EMBODYING AND GRAFTING, Index
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